I don’t disagree with you.

Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.

The chicken or the egg, which came first?

If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.

Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.

Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.

Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.

Idk what Microsoft did to the product but I wouldn’t call it an improvement.

I think the article we’re looking at here isn’t really hyperbolic. They got AI to write all their code and broke the Keyboard.

Just FYI, if you can live without swipping, I recommend FUTO keyboard., it is basically Swiftkey but it actually works and doesn’t come with Microsoft’s spyware built in.

It’s what I use now, and I’m really happy. Don’t be fooled by it being in Alpha, because it works flawlessly (minus the swipe, which is hit and miss).

So this explains why Microsoft Swiftkey is total dogshit now. Also why the Outlook app barely works.

Its unbelievable.

Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?

Very excited about this.

Recently discovered GNOME and loved the workflow, and now I find out Cosmic improves upon it with a more modern programming language behind it, which is native to Wayland.

I’m not much of an Alpha tester, but ill be following the progress of the project closely.

Did he ever apologize for it, though?

That’s right, hahaha.

Hey, so I wanted to come back just to say: I ended up trying Bluefin, and frankly… I like it better than Aurora now. Lol. The workflow is insanely good for me who get distracted so easily.

I thought I was finding a distro for my wife (who will surely love it) but I ended up finding it for myself also.

Just thought I’d let you know. Cheers buddy!

It’s like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.

Hmm, you may be onto something here.

I think I’ll test drive it and consider the same for my wife. She has a Mac, and she says she prefers Windows (clearly she hasn’t used it in nearly a decade), and this might be an option for her if I can just put all the stuff she uses on the bottom docker.

Thanks for the tip, and best of luck in your Linux journey! 🐧

I agree with you, lol. The other day I tried windows 11 at a store, and it was a pain. The learning curve was bigger from windows 10 -> 11 than from windows 10 -> KDE.

I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?

Love to read this, I’m exactly on the same journey! Was using Mint until a few days ago, and now I’m on Aurora. There is a bit of a learning curve due to the atomic factor (some apps aren’t in Discover), but overall I’m happy with the stability.

Linux is truly wonderful and I look forward to learning more and seeing it grow. Fuck Microsoft, I’m done with their crap.

NGL that smiley face from Finder looks so condescending lmao. My wife’s laptop is a Mac and it’s hilarious every time how it shows up so often. Like Clippy from Word lol.

Always the same gadlighters trick: acuse others of doing what you are doing.

And nothing of value was lost.

That’s what this conversation is about. Normally I’d chastise people for not reading through to the body of the linked article, but this time it’s right in the headline. You literally could not have reached this post without reading it at least once.

It’s called having a conversation and typically in those people move past the starting point on to other related topics. There’s no need to read malice into it.

You’re welcome to not answer further, too.

Well, yeah. What kind of security do you think normies are running? They won’t even get hijacked by an unpatched Windows 10 exploit, they’ll just try to download The Last of Us by opening “WatchOnlineMoviesFree.exe” when a pop up tells them to.

Well exactly, although let’s be honest: “normies” will downgrade upgrade to windows 11 because they always want the latest greatest thing.

Business operations will go with whatever is cheapest to maintain, which is the entire point of LTSC and the article in the link.

This might be true wherever you’re from (I’m assuming US?) but it’s in no way reality where I live. Here you must use a secure OS for businesses, you can’t just use whatever.

I suppose. We would have to know if it’s worth their while to work on security flaws (which I imagine they will put zero effort into and pretty much just answer to bounty hunter reports) for $30 a year.

But because I know Microsoft and am used to their shenanigans, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that lasting for too long.

I personally use Fedora (starting yesterday actually), but Mint is definitely a serviceable distro that works for a wide variety of people.

I simply don’t like how it stays so behind on updates (I see that as a big security and privacy risk), but if you don’t need windows-only proprietary software, or all you do is browse the web, then Linux Mint is a familiar and usable enough distro.

If you’re going to criticize Mint for being behind in packages, then you also need to criticize Debian, because that’s where the philosophy comes from.